Mats Lundahl & Fredrik Sjöholm 
The Creation of the East Timorese Economy [PDF ebook] 
Volume 1: History of a Colony

1. ‘Where the Sandalwood Is Born’: East Timor until the Mid-Eighteenth Century.- 2. The Two Last Centuries of Portuguese Domination.- 3. The Indonesian Occupation.- 4. The Economy under Occupation.- 5. Launching a New State.- 6. Conclusions.

Mats Lundahl is Professor emeritus of Development Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he held his chair between 1987 and 2013. He has published widely in professional journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Latin American Studies, Human Organization and Comparative Economic Studies. He is also the author or editor of sixty-six books. The most recent one published by Palgrave Macmillan is The Economic of the Frontier: Conquest and Settlement (with Ronald Findlay, 2017).
Fredrik Sjöholm is Professor of International Economics at Lund University and affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics. Sjöholm has published a large number of articles on globalization in international journals including the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Geography and European Economic Review. He has also edited two books on Southeast Asia, including Multinational Corporations in Indonesia and Thailand: Wages, Productivity and Exports (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).